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DAILY NEBRASKA Friday, April 24, 1942 80ftSfcl- 1 . . 0RTY-'1RST YEAH. Subscription Rates are $1.00 Per Semester or 11.50 for the College Year. J3.50 Mailed. Single copy, 6 Cents. Entered as second-class matter at the postof(ice) in Lin coln, Nebraska, under Act of Congress Maroh 3, lb79. and at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act of October 3. 1917. Authorized September 30. 1922. Published Daily during the scnool year except Mondays and Saturdays, vacation! and examinations period by Student! ot the University of Nebraska under the auperviilon of the Pub lications Board. Offices Union Building , Pay 2-7181. Night 2-7193. Journal 2-3330. Editor Paul E. Svoboda Business Manager Ben Novicoff EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. Managing Editors Marjoria Bruning. Bob Sell later Newt Editors George Abbott, Alan Jacobs, June Jamleson, Helen Kclley. Marjorie May. Sports Editor Bob Miller Member Nebraska Press Aaacclation, 1941-2 BUSINESS DEPARIMENI. I Assistant Bus. Managers Betty Dixon, Phil Kantor Circulation Manager Sidney Scbwaru Navy "V" Program To clarify the "V" program of Naval Ke servs enlistments we publish this complete summary issued by the Navy Public Kelations committee. iV-1 Pre-Indoctrination Training This is the latest procurement plan a plan .where by the Navy hopes to obtain 80,000 pre indoctrinated trainees per year. College fresh men and sophomores between the ages of 17 and 19 inclusive Mho are of good moral char acter and in good physical condition may en list in Class V-l as apprentice seamen. After approximately throe semesters, during which they will study related Navy subjects, taught by the regular college faculty, "V-l men will lie given a general examination. Those rank ing sufficiently high in the examination may transfer to Class V-3 or V-7 (see below) and continue their inactive status until completion of the academic requirements for those classes. Those whoso scores on the examination are too low to warant V-5 or V-7 training will be al lowed to complete the 4-semcster indoctrination course and then be called to active duty as apprentice seamen. For further information or enlistment consult your college registrar or the nearest Navy recruiting office. y2 Naval Aviation Mechanics This is an opportunity for men between the ages of 17 and 28 inclusive with limited experience or demonstrable interest in internal combustion engines or metal work. Men whose eyesight bars them from flying the Navy's warbirds can help keep 'em plying by enlisting in this classification at the nearest recruiting office. They will receive 26 weeks intensive training which wil qualify them for petty of ficers' ratings as aviation machinists and avia tion metalsmiths. ,V-3 Naval Communications lit re is the opening for men interested in wireless and visual signals. They must enlist as apprentice seamen, but will be sent to a communications service school if, at the con clusion of their recruit training, they show .1 preference and aptitude for this classification. The training they receive during their first year of service is worth $1,500, according to the Navy. iV-4 Naval Intelligence College men of "outstanding character and unquestioned reliability" with legal training or stenographic ability were formerly enlisted as yeomen ("seagoing secretaries") in this classification. Quotas were filled shortly after Pearl Harbor, but may be reopened. a Most Navy men regard this classification as the gilt-edge opportunity in the Naval Ke scrve. Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be a super man to get in. You must, however, be between the ages of 19 and 26 in clusive, unmarried, and i good shape physi cally. If you haven't yet finished the required two years of college, you may enlist now and continue school until you have. You will re ceive 90 days training at one of the 18 reserve aviation bases, then be shipped to the "An-, napolis of the Air" (at Pensacola, Fla.) or to "Jax" (Jacksonville, Fla.) or "Corpus" (Cor pus Christi, Tex.) for advanced training. Upon receiving your Navy "wings" and commission, you will also begin receiving $245 a month. Any Kavy recruiting office wity steer you transpor tation paid) to the nearest Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board. ,V-6 Volunteer Specialists This classification coters nearly all of the Navy's 55 petty officer specialist ratings. If you know typing and or shorthand you may be (enlisted 'as a yeoman, if you have had boOk aar . . a. Tl. " .. . Its., I By Marsa Lee Civin. DeWitt lvstor '19 among the first Nebras ka student to join the colors left for training camp at Fort Snelling. At the end of his train ing at camp he was commissioned as a first lieutenant and was transferred to Camp Dodge. After only one month he attained the position as aide to General Plununer. Foster was a mem ber of Alpha Tau Omega and was businesf manager of the Cornhusker. The university senate sent a proposal to the war department to be allowed to establish a military camp at the university for intensive technical training in mechanics. The school would help turn out engineers for regular en listment. The idea was viewed favorably by ("apt. Andrew Knight, representative of the "War department in educational and special training field. J Jul Scduhdm Zt&itoA Now that Ave are really down to brass lacks in the business of w inning the war, 1 feel better. For many months 1 have been daily .helping to fill the military camps with fine voung men and also have been de-tiring, de- sugaring, and de-tinning myself so that the boys in uniform may have the needed supplies; but only this morning did I realize that the real job of maintaining the principles we are fight ing for lies not with MacArthur and all other brave soldiers or with the Navy, Air or Marine groups. Now 1 know how the thing must be done. Ping Pong! that's the answer! Howling, billards and marbles! Now we're getting somewhere! Dancing, bridge, and gin rummy! Victory is assured! I am just now sending in my application the for job of coordinator of grand old game of Post Office. I figure that 1 can get fifty mil lions (r0) of our citizens to play regularly and when the Japs hear that we are producing 50 millions of "Smacks ' a week they will simply fold. How we, as a nation, could have failed to realize that modern war is fought by coordina Jors is a mystery. Here we have been trying to win with solders, sailors, tanks, and planes, Shoeking! We have been asking our boys to carry guns (Isn't it awful?) and spend hours and hours "niekine them un and Duttine them a a a down," when we should have been asking'our citizens to execute intrieiatc steps (one, two, step right, salute your partners glide and whirl your skirt). No wonder the news from the fronts is had! No wonder the subs sink our ships! Hut, now, happy days are here again. The coordinators are going to coordinate and we shall rsoon lie putting four (4) info the coffee eup and riding high on the three-lane thoro faies. The bullet factories will close, the tanks give way to super deluxe sedans and the na tion prosper as never before. Now that we have our feet on the ground, we shall play ourselves to victory. Bid high, knuckle clown with your glassy, swing your lady, make your billiard, invent charades, neck in the park, get the croquet set' out and Old Glory wil never be in danger. Very truly, Raymond E. Manchester. Office Dean of Men, Kent State University, keeping experience, you may be enlisted as a storekeeper. If you have a "ham" radio opera tor's license or know radio, you may be enlisted as u second class petty officer and trained to operate HADAK, tbe Navy's secret aircraft detecting device. Other raiings open to quali fied men in this class range all the way from bugler to welder, Kven faculty men can elist (at any Navy recruiting office), since the class is open to all healthy male citizens between the ages of 17 to 50. A petty officer's rating in the Navy is equivalent in pay anda rank to that of a sergeant in Ihe Army. V-7 Midshipman Training Graduates of the three midshipman schools have won numerous citations for their activi ties aboard destroyers and "mosquito" boats in the Pacific. If you are junior, senior, or graduate student between the ages of 20 and 27 inclusive, you may enlist now and be de fered from active duty until receipt of your degree. In earning the sheepskin, you must complete two semesters of math, including one course in plane trigonometry. You will then be given 30 days' indoctrination at Notre Dame university and sent to one of the midshipman whools at Northwestern or Columbia univer sity or aboard the USS Prairie State in New York City. Purdue iSxponcnt, r Eleanor'n Rti Alan .TarnVia "J a Me W Alex dropped in at the office the other day to see us. Alex, you remember, is the litlle fellow who wears the little black derby and smokes the big, black cigars. Alex is a character. "1 see where Ivy Day is approaching," he said as he climbed up on to the desk beside our typewriter. "Yes," we answered. We were trying desperately to think of something to write about for the colunii.'. "Nice day, Ivy Day," he said. "Yes," we replied. "1 was out at Fred's the other day," he began. "Yes?" we interpolated. "1 was sitting under a table there, and heard the boys talking." "Yes?" "Seems as if some of the prospective Innocents may be drafted, according to the boys. That'll keep a lot of juniors on their feet while others get tackled come Ivy Day," he grinned, flicked his cigar. Then he spat, missing the cuspidor by six inches. "It doesn't seem right." We discarded another idea for a column and began ex amining exchange papers for either a guest columnist or a stolen idea. But Alex kept talking now more softly and con fidentially than before. "You know," he said, "I can't figure out why a guy who is going into the army should be deprived of honors, if he deserves them." "Yes," we said. "The boys out at Fred's said that a red-robor (not a typo graphical error) couldn't serve in the army at the same time." "Yes?" "They figure it's better to honor an outstanding fellow by giving him a medal post-liumously than slipping him a tackle while he's still alive." "Yes." "It doesn't make sense," he muttered as he jumped from the desk, threw away his cigar, and slipped from the office. "Yes," we said. Just Routine . . . Iowa State Grad Students Search for Half Billion Dollars AMES, la. (ACP). On the trail of a half bililon dollars, or more! No this is not a tale of a high pressure fiction detective but just part of the routine of two chemical engineering graduate students at Iowa State college, F. E. Camp bell and Burdette Jones. Dr. O. R. Sweeney, head of the department, put Campbell and Jones on the trial to find out what happened to the fixed nitrogen present in ordinary coal. Sweeney knew there was not much in each ton probably around 25 or 30 pounds but in the yearly United States consumption of 400 million or more tons this would amount to about five-and-a-half million tons. 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